Improvement in cotton-cultivators



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Sh'ovei Plow.

No. l y 4 Patentd Apr. 16, 1861.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GORGE W. RICE, OF DEMQPOLIS, ALABAMA.

IM PROVEM ENT IN COTTON-CULTIVATQ RS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 32,082. dated April 16, 1861.

To all whom zt/,may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. RICE, of Demopolis, in the county 'of Marengo and State of Alabama, have invented a new and Improved Cotton-Scraper, and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in whichl Figure lis a side elevation of my invention. Fig. 2 is a front view of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the two figures.

To enable those skilled inthe art to fully understand and construct my invention, I will proceed to describe it.

A represents the beam of the scraper-plow,

. and B B handles, which may be attached to the beam in the usual or in any proper way.

C is a flat metal bar, which passes through the beam A in or about a vertical position, and is secured therein by a pin, a. To the lower part of the bar C there are attached two metal bent bars,D. These bars D are bent in right-angle form, and are attached to each side of thebar C by screw-bolts b b..

To the lower end of each bar D a share, E, is attached. These shares may be .formed of a single metal plate, so bent and curved that its front edge, c, will be vertical, so as to form a vertical cutter, andthe back part, d, bent in mold-board form,proj ecting obliquely back from the front part, c. The front parts of the shares E are each notched, as lshown at d in Fig. 1, and the back ends of rods F F are hooked into these notches, the front ends of said rods being hooked into an eye, e, at the lower end of a screw-rod, G, which passes vertically through the beam A, and has a nut, f,

on its upper end. The rods F F, it will be seen, serve as braces for the shares E E, and

it will also be seen that the bent bars D D admit of a space, g, being between the two shares,

as clearly exhibited in Fig. 2. This space y.

may increase in width, as occasion may require, by placing washers on the bolts b b, which secure them to the bar C. As the machine is drawn along, a share, E, operatesat each side of the row, the plants being between them, the draft-animal being made to walk at v one side of the row by means of a paddled block placed under the right side of back-band of the harness.

This implement may be very economically constructed, and it is extremely strong and durable.

I am aware that two shares have been attached to plow-beams and cultivators for the purpose of plowing or otherwise operating at both sides of the row at the same time; and I therefore do not claim, broadly, such device irrespective of the construction herein shown and described; but

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent* The arrangement of the peculiarly-formed Scrapers E E and U-shaped bars D D with each other, and with the standard C, bracerods F F, adjusting-rod G, and beam A, all as herein shown and described, for the purposes set forth.

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Witnesses:

WM. S; FowLEE, J. H. EPPEE. 

